HERITAGE COLLEGE EARLY LEARNING CENTRE
Heritage College is a Christian co-educational day-college which is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Education Department and governed by an elected Committee of Management. The Heritage College Early Learning Centre is co-located on the K-12 campus in Officer. The facility consists of four preschool rooms offering three and four year old kindergarten programs.
Project Type
Early Learning
Client
Heritage College, Officer
Completed
2013
Traditional Owners
Bunurong people
Pre-fabricated construction
This project is unique to due to its extremely short construction period on site, and its low construction cost. Following a community meeting, the school engaged KDA to design an Early Learning Centre on their existing campus, to be operational in the following year.
Our previous experience in designing for this site gave us a realistic understanding of the lengthy Town Planing process, hence we (and the school) looked into the potential of engaging pre-fabricated building companies to reduce the construction period on site.
It was still important to the school for the building to be open-planned, modern, filled with natural light, energy efficient, and most importantly, NOT feel like a portable building. We worked closely with the selected pre-fab builder Cubiq Modular (Hensley Park Homes) to complete this fast-tracked 796m2 building for $1.27m with only 3 months construction time on site.
KDA Team
Phillip Cheung, Jina Zheng
Acknowledgements
Photographer
Silvi Glattauer